Sendai Aoba Festival
E218098
The Sendai Aoba Festival is a major traditional spring celebration in Sendai, Japan, featuring ornate floats, historical processions, and various cultural performances honoring the city’s heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sendai Aoba Festival canonical | 2 |
| Aoba Castle Festival | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1929780 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sendai Aoba Festival Context triple: [Sendai, hasFestival, Sendai Aoba Festival]
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A.
Niigata Festival
Niigata Festival is a major summer celebration in Niigata City, Japan, featuring traditional parades, folk dances, fireworks, and river events that highlight the region’s culture and history.
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B.
Sendai Tanabata Festival
The Sendai Tanabata Festival is one of Japan’s most famous summer festivals, renowned for its elaborate colorful streamers and decorations that fill the streets of Sendai each August.
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C.
Nagaoka Festival
The Nagaoka Festival is a major summer event in Nagaoka, Niigata, best known for its large-scale fireworks displays and traditional celebrations.
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D.
Tenjin Matsuri
Tenjin Matsuri is one of Japan’s most famous and historic summer festivals in Osaka, featuring elaborate river processions, traditional performances, and fireworks in honor of the deity of scholarship.
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E.
Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival
The Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival is a renowned classical music festival in Matsumoto, Japan, founded and led by conductor Seiji Ozawa, featuring high-level orchestral and operatic performances and educational programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sendai Aoba Festival Target entity description: The Sendai Aoba Festival is a major traditional spring celebration in Sendai, Japan, featuring ornate floats, historical processions, and various cultural performances honoring the city’s heritage.
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A.
Niigata Festival
Niigata Festival is a major summer celebration in Niigata City, Japan, featuring traditional parades, folk dances, fireworks, and river events that highlight the region’s culture and history.
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B.
Sendai Tanabata Festival
The Sendai Tanabata Festival is one of Japan’s most famous summer festivals, renowned for its elaborate colorful streamers and decorations that fill the streets of Sendai each August.
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C.
Nagaoka Festival
The Nagaoka Festival is a major summer event in Nagaoka, Niigata, best known for its large-scale fireworks displays and traditional celebrations.
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D.
Tenjin Matsuri
Tenjin Matsuri is one of Japan’s most famous and historic summer festivals in Osaka, featuring elaborate river processions, traditional performances, and fireworks in honor of the deity of scholarship.
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E.
Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival
The Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival is a renowned classical music festival in Matsumoto, Japan, founded and led by conductor Seiji Ozawa, featuring high-level orchestral and operatic performances and educational programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
matsuri
ⓘ
traditional festival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sendai tourism
ⓘ
local commerce ⓘ |
| attracts |
domestic tourists
ⓘ
international tourists ⓘ local visitors ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Japanese culture
ⓘ
Tohoku regional culture ⓘ |
| duration | multiple days ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
community participation
ⓘ
procession of floats ⓘ religious or ceremonial rites ⓘ traditional costume wearing ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cultural performances
ⓘ
food stalls ⓘ historical processions ⓘ ornate floats ⓘ parades ⓘ street performances ⓘ traditional dance ⓘ traditional music ⓘ |
| hasPerformance |
stage shows
ⓘ
taiko drumming ⓘ traditional Japanese dance ⓘ traditional Japanese music ⓘ |
| hasProcession |
historical warrior procession
ⓘ
samurai costume parade ⓘ |
| hasTheme | celebration of Sendai’s heritage ⓘ |
| heldInMonth | May ⓘ |
| honors |
Date clan heritage
ⓘ
Sendai city history ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Miyagi Prefecture
NERFINISHED
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Sendai ⓘ Tohoku ⓘ
surface form:
Tohoku region
|
| mainLocation |
central Sendai
ⓘ
downtown Sendai streets ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Aoba Castle
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Mount Aoba ⓘ
surface form:
Aoba-yama (Mount Aoba)
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| relatedTo |
Sendai Aoba Festival
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Aoba Castle Festival
Sendai Tanabata Festival ⓘ |
| season | spring ⓘ |
| typeOfEvent |
city festival
ⓘ
heritage event ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sendai Aoba Festival Description of subject: The Sendai Aoba Festival is a major traditional spring celebration in Sendai, Japan, featuring ornate floats, historical processions, and various cultural performances honoring the city’s heritage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aoba Castle Festival